Hyderabad: If there is any month to choose from in a year that is tragic in Hyderabad’s history, it is September. Albeit not in the same year, the month has historically been marked with some of the worst tragedies that have befallen our city.

On September 28 in 1908, the devastating 1908 Musi river floods hit Hyderabad, in which an estimated (reportedly) 15000 people died. It was followed by annexation of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad to India on September 17, 1948. And prior to both of these events, September 22 in 1687 was the tragic day when the kingdom of Golconda fell to the Mughal king Aurangzeb, who razed Hyderabad to the ground.

The trio of events in September make it the month of tragedies for Hyderabad, as it marks different events all of which devastated the city

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